Some revealing double-speak on healthcare reform

Greetings, racists!

“This plan needs real barriers to prevent big companies that hire low-wage workers (like Wal-Mart) from merely pushing the health-care burden onto taxpayers,…”

So, who was that? Some tea party protester whining about having to foot the bill on behalf of the chum in the capitalist shark tank?

Not at all. That’d be rather the current mayor of San Francisco and candidate for governor of our fine state, Gavin Newsom. Of course, that quote was made nearly two years ago and represented Newsom’s opposition to Governor Schwarzenegger’s push to install an Obama-style health reform plan here in California.

Of course, Gavin is singing a different tune now as he is in full support of Obama-care.

But we’ll take Newsom’s original assessment of Arnold-care as his honest first impression take on government-managed health care because it is spot-on and represents why most big businesses are lining up behind Obama-care. If outfits like Wal-Mart are subjected to a tax for not providing a government-approved health plan to their employees for an amount that is less than what it costs them to provide a health plan, what do you think is going to happen?

Perhaps, merely because he was a Republican and Newsom needed some campaign fodder did he oppose Schwarzenegger’s plan but we won’t let the cynic in us not appreciate Newsom’s fit of honesty in seeing and espousing upon the game plan behind Obama-care.